The Mums and Babies' Ensemble: Theatre-Making with The Early Years

母婴剧团是一个双管齐下的公共参与项目，利用21世纪戏剧中PI研究的研究成果，针对戏剧制作人和普通观众。本·弗莱彻-沃森(Ben Fletcher-Watson，2013)认为，戏剧创作是一种参与性越来越强的、非文学的、整体的创作过程，而不是由剧作家或导演主导的创作过程。该项目旨在通过将成人和幼儿(0-3岁)作为平等参与者的戏剧实践的具体背景来探索这些原则--利用早年戏剧作为一个类别的概念，根据Ben Fletcher-Watson(2013)的说法，戏剧也可以被认为属于戏剧后戏剧。该项目具有创新性和独一无二的潜力，可通过两种方式满足已确定的需求。首先，它填补了剧目中的一个特殊空白--而不是专门针对父母(如SOHO Screamers)或早期儿童戏剧(作为儿童剧的一个子类型)，该项目将由父母和婴儿平等领导和瞄准，从而也形成了婴儿作为创作伙伴参与戏剧制作过程的第一个实例。其次，这一进程最终旨在以创造性手册的形式为未来的戏剧制作人和他们的婴儿创造一个创新的表演剧本，这将提供一个特定的戏剧框架，但仍保持足够的开放性，供后续剧团和观众填充他们的个人材料。剧本的开发将分为三个阶段，首先是在伦敦举行的为期一周的研讨会。作为发展方法的一部分，这一阶段将使当地父母和婴儿、新生儿和戏剧专业人员以及普通观众参与进来，从而为在国家一级进一步传播这部作品和剧本创造了途径。第二阶段将侧重于创作剧本，第一稿截止日期为2015年5月，第三阶段将涉及剧本本身的编辑和准备工作，以便于2015年9月出版。我们将与平面设计师(最好是家长)在脚本准备工作。该剧本将由国内异议艺术与实践研究所出版500册，编号为ISBN，并将通过适当的书店和在线渠道(该研究所已经与我们将用于此目的的现场艺术和发展自由网站建立了关系)以及相关的会议和公共活动进行传播。

The Mums and Babies' Ensemble is a two-pronged public engagement project utilising research findings from the PIs research in the 21st century dramaturgies, aimed at both theatre-makers and general audience. Rooted in the idea of theatre authorship as an increasingly participatory, non-literary, ensemble- rather than playwright- or director-led process, the project is intended to explore these principles in the specific context of a theatre practice which includes as equal participants both the adults and the Early Years (0-3 year olds) - capitalising on the notion of theatre for Early Years as a category which according to Ben Fletcher-Watson (2013) can also be thought of as belonging to postdramatic theatre. The project is innovative and unique in its potential to meet the identified need in two ways. First, it fills a particular gap in the repertoire - rather than being aimed exclusively at either the parents (such as Soho Screamers) or the for Early Years (as a sub genre of children's theatre), the project will be led by and aimed at parents and babies equally, thus also forming the first instance of the babies being involved as creative partners in a process of theatre-making. Secondly, the process is ultimately geared towards creating an innovative performance script in the form of a creative handbook for future theatre-makers and their babies which will provide a specific dramaturgical framework but remain open enough for subsequent ensembles and audiences to fill with their personal material. There will be three stages to the script-development, starting with a week-long workshop in London. This stage will engage local parents and babies, neonatal and theatre professionals as well as general audiences as part of the development methodology, thus creating pathways for further dissemination of the work and the script on the national level. The second stage will focus on the creation of the script with the first draft deadline in May 2015 and the third stage will involve editing and preparation of the script itself for publication in September 2015. We will work with a graphic designer (preferably a parent) on the script preparation. The script will be published in 500 copies as a publication with an ISBN number by The Institute for Art and Practice of Dissent at Home and it will be disseminated through suitable bookshops and online outlets (the Institute already has a relationship with the Live Art and Development Unbound website which we will use for this purpose) as well as relevant conferences and public events.